We are running a contest to see who has the best recipe for a Dark Rum Happy Hour Drink. Simply share a recipe for a dark rum cocktail for a chance to win a $50 dining gift card and a Delta drink certificate. For a little inspiration check out the dark rum recipes on this dark rum drink page, but we are always happy if you share your own drink recipes too.
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Leave a comment in this post sharing the the drink recipe to your favorite dark rum drink
- What is your favorite dark rum drink recipe?
- Example: “My favorite dark rum drink recipe is the Cuba Libre. To make it add 1 – 2 shots dark rum, 1 fresh lime, fill with Coca-Cola, and serve over ice.”
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If the dark rum is good, don’t waste it in a mixed drink…just serve over ice! My favorite is Havana Club 7 anos.
I’m a fan of Rum & Coca-Cola made with Sailor Jerry rum. I swear, the rum actually makes the Coke taste better.
My favorite dark rum drink is the Dark and Stormy. Pour 2oz dark rum over ice, add 8oz ginger beer, juice of 1/4th of a lime and stir. Delicious!!
This one’s my recipe:
Drunken Hummingbird
1 oz Dark Rum
1 oz Rum Cream (can use Baileys for similar drink if unavailable)
1 oz Kahlua
.5 ounce Strawberry Syrup/flavoring
Half of a Banana
1 oz cream
1 cup crushed ice
Blend and Enjoy!
I’ve also made it where the 1 oz cream and 1 cup crushed ice is subbed with ice cream. Also delicious, but heavier.
A dark n stormy – so yummy
Prep:
2 oz dark rum 3 oz ginger beer and a lime wedge for garnish if desired
1. Build the ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice cubes. 2. Garnish with the lime wedge.
For a tropical mix, try mango ginger beer! It’s paradise in a cup!
Simple: a shot of Flor de Caña 19 años. Stock up at the grocery next time you’re in Nicaragua. 🙂
Best Dark Rum:
Bermuda Triangle
2 oz Orange Juice
2 oz Cranberry Juice
1 1/2 oz Dark Rum
Add ingredients over ice, stir gently and garnish with a fresh orange slice.
Best 151 rum:
Miami Vice
5 oz rum
1 packagefrozen pina colada mix
1 packagefrozen daiquiri mix
I like to make a drink called “Another”.
Ingredients are…
-Dark Rum
-Amaretto
-Cranberry Juice
-Pineapple Juice
The trick is to pour amaretto/dark rum first. Followed by Pineapple. Lastly cranberry. Just throw a splash of cranberry on the top and it becomes a multi-layered drink with the red and yellow mixing quite well. Looks great, tastes great. You will want “Another”
El Dorado 15 over ice. No matter how many you consume, you can’t screw up the recipe.
Rum and caffeine-free coke — try it.
Dark and Stormy.
Ice
1/4 lime, cut into two thick slices
2 ounces Gosling’s Black Seal Bermuda black rum
4 ounces Barritt’s Ginger Beer
Fill a highball glass with ice. Squeeze one lime over the ice. Add the rum. Add the ginger beer. Place a slice of lime on the rim of the glass.
Done.
Planter’s Punch – so good make it by the pitcher:
1 fifth dark rum
1 6-ounce can frozen orange juice concentrate
1 6-ounce can frozen pink lemonade concentrate
3 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons grenadine
4 cups water
Ice
In a large container, combine all of the ingredients and stir to dissolve the concentrates. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve over ice in tall glasses. Garnish with an orange wedge
warning, this $50 gift card you must use an American Express Charge card…..and it’s valid for dinner only.. and can not be used on the daily specials…
and you must buy 2 entrees.. if you buy two burgers at $20 each, with 2 sodas, it will cover the $50.. that was my trick
3/4 oz dark rum
1/2 oz coffee liqueur
3/4 oz lime juice
1 dash bitters
Favorite drink while I was in Jamaica, yum!
My favorite dark rum drink is a modified BBC-
Banana
Baileys
Coconut Rum
Dark rum
Blend over ice. Delicious!
1.5 ounces of Gosling’s dark rum, two lime wedges, fill to the top with Diet coke (has to be Diet, the faintly medicinal taste of aspartame actually helps this drink) and finish with a Grand Marnier float.
Captain Morgan and Coke with a big slice of lime!
My version of the Mauna Kea Mai Tai
Combine in a shaker (this makes 2 drinks):
3 oz light rum
1 oz orange curacao or grand marnier
2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz guava juice (mexican section at grocery store)
2 oz lime juice
1 oz orgeat syrup (mix section of liquor store)
1 oz simple syrup
Mix in shaker and pour over ice then top each drink with
1 1/2 oz dark rum as a floater on top
Garnish with mint leaves, pineapple wedge, lime wedge
Mahalo.
Aruba aribe
1/2 oz. rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/8 oz. Coecoei
1/8 oz. Creme de Banana
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup cranberry juice
1/2 cup pineapple juice
south Maui mai tai
Hana Bay Black Rum (very inexpensive at the local ABC stores) 1/3
orange juice 1/3
pineapple juice 1/3
adjust ratio to taste, garnish with assorted fruit salad and little umbrella if it makes you feel better.
when I’m home I stick with Appleton Estates 12 year and coke…Ya Mon….Jamaica knows Rum
P.S. I don’t need the dinner, just thought I’d share
Oh and Jamaica has a rum drink called a “dirty banana”
They use bananas that have started to turn brown, I don’t know the exact recipe but they are very tasty.
Maybe someone here knows it?
I’m a fan of my own creation:
In a tall glass with ice add 1 shot of Myers’s and then fill with Cactus Cooler soda. Maybe not as good and fancy as others out there but very simple and it tastes good.
Cruciatus recipe
1/2 oz Aftershock® Hot & Cool cinnamon schnapps
1/2 oz Jagermeister® herbal liqueur
1/2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz Rumple Minze® peppermint liqueur
Mix all ingredients. Serve in a shot glass.
Dark and Stormy – one part Gosling’s Black Seal Rum with 4 parts ginger beer (I prefer Vernor’s). Poor rum over ice, add ginger beer, stir, and enjoy!
Rum and Vanilla Coke Zero. It’s like liquid crack.
A Dark and Stormy is almost as good,if it has a twist of lime.
The best dark rum drink I know of is a Dark and Stormy… and the best Dark and Stormy I know of is from The Violet Hour in Chicago!! Here’s Toby’s recipe (one of the owners) and a link to him making this famous drink!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vAHM9js19A
RECIPE
1.5 oz Matusalem Rum
.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice
.75 oz Ginger Syrup
Top: Soda Water
Float: .5 oz Cruzan Black Strap Rum
Glass: Collins
Ice: Shard
Garnish: Candied Ginger
Shake. Strain. Top with soda water. Stir briefly. Float Cruzan Black Strap rum.
I found a drink called FUCK FACE (and I can see why its called that!) (I’d like one now!)
Fuck Face (A popular beverage of Australian origin).
1/3 oz Wild Turkey® bourbon whiskey
1/3 oz Jack Daniel’s® Tennessee whiskey
1/3 oz Bundaberg® dark rum
Pour ingredients in equal parts into a shot glass, stir, and serve.
All good drinks suggestions…keep them coming.
“Priceless” comment in #28 🙂
My favorite is definitely any dark rum (2 parts) with coca cola lime (1part). But of course it should be a double!